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Post by Clinton Cool on Dec 25, 2018 22:20:59 GMT
I'm toying with the idea of taking a year off living on my boat to go travelling. Putting the boat in a marina and paying for a licence would work out pretty expensive. I'm wondering if it might work out a lot cheaper to get it craned out onto somewhere that offers hardstanding, then back in when I come back. Does anyone have any idea roughly what this might cost for a 35ft boat? Somewhere around Cheshire would be ideal. If you know somewhere, even better!
Cheers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2018 22:30:20 GMT
I'm toying with the idea of taking a year off living on my boat to go travelling. Putting the boat in a marina and paying for a licence would work out pretty expensive. I'm wondering if it might work out a lot cheaper to get it craned out onto somewhere that offers hardstanding, then back in when I come back. Does anyone have any idea roughly what this might cost for a 35ft boat? Somewhere around Cheshire would be ideal. If you know somewhere, even better! Cheers. Maybe you can find someone who would like to try living in it for a year in return for paying the fees and doing maintenence? I’m not sure boats like being out of the water for long as it speeds up corrosion. |
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Post by TonyDunkley on Dec 26, 2018 1:40:45 GMT
I'm toying with the idea of taking a year off living on my boat to go travelling. Putting the boat in a marina and paying for a licence would work out pretty expensive. I'm wondering if it might work out a lot cheaper to get it craned out onto somewhere that offers hardstanding, then back in when I come back. Does anyone have any idea roughly what this might cost for a 35ft boat? Somewhere around Cheshire would be ideal. If you know somewhere, even better! Cheers. Commercial Boat Services yard at Chester is the one you want. Craning out and hardstanding is all FoC initially, and you settle up only when you want your boat back in the water. Bookings and quotations can be had through any C&RT office. |
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Post by JohnV on Dec 26, 2018 8:43:48 GMT
Although Tony has posted with a practical place, I thought I would chip in with my three pennorth
A price for my old stamping ground Darn Sarf would be about £50 out £50 in and around a tenner a month storage. ...... total of round about a quarter of the local annual mooring charges
(remember it will save you the licence fee as well)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2018 9:00:41 GMT
I was offered a hard standing at Debdale in 2004 when I first bought the boat.
It was significantly cheaper than a mooring back then, but being so long ago there's little point me quoting prices etc.
I know of a boat that fairly recently did exactly what you are considering whilst travelling for a year, so Debdale still offer the service.
Good luck with the research.
Rog
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Post by Telemachus on Dec 26, 2018 10:10:20 GMT
I'm toying with the idea of taking a year off living on my boat to go travelling. Putting the boat in a marina and paying for a licence would work out pretty expensive. I'm wondering if it might work out a lot cheaper to get it craned out onto somewhere that offers hardstanding, then back in when I come back. Does anyone have any idea roughly what this might cost for a 35ft boat? Somewhere around Cheshire would be ideal. If you know somewhere, even better! Cheers. Commercial Boat Services yard at Chester is the one you want. Craning out and hardstanding is all FoC initially, and you settle up only when you want your boat back in the water. Bookings and quotations can be had through any C&RT office. Just hoping Ricco “gets” this! |
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Post by Telemachus on Dec 26, 2018 10:16:33 GMT
What’s that boatyard on the lower Shroppie by the A5 aqueduct called? They seem to have plenty of boats out, although mostly historic types. Then there is Aqueduct marina on the Middlewich. Probably expensive though. Edit. Yes, expensive! www.aqueductmarina.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/STORAGE-V2.pdf |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2018 10:38:46 GMT
is that the same place as industry narrow boats?
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Post by Telemachus on Dec 26, 2018 10:47:08 GMT
is that the same place as industry narrow boats? Yes that’s the one (by the A5 aqueduct which I now remember is Stretton aqueduct). |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 26, 2018 11:01:36 GMT
What’s that boatyard on the lower Shroppie by the A5 aqueduct called? They seem to have plenty of boats out, although mostly historic types. Then there is Aqueduct marina on the Middlewich. Probably expensive though. Edit. Yes, expensive! www.aqueductmarina.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/STORAGE-V2.pdfAqueduct Marina is probably one of the most expensive marinas on the network, although paradoxically it's where I bought my boat from, I considered that they had undervalued it by around £3,000- £4,000, without me even telling him the surveyor valued it at exactly the same value as I had, I think they just didn't want my crappy potato coffin lowering the tone of their posh marina for a moment longer than they had to. When I did idly enquire about mooring there, they made it clear that my boat would be about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit and they didn't have any vacancies but if they did it would cost me £2,600 a year (by comparison my first year on the cut, at Brinklow Marina was just under £1,600. |
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Post by Clinton Cool on Dec 26, 2018 11:18:29 GMT
Commercial Boat Services yard at Chester is the one you want. Craning out and hardstanding is all FoC initially, and you settle up only when you want your boat back in the water. Bookings and quotations can be had through any C&RT office. Just hoping Ricco “gets” this! Eh? Do I have a reputation for being slow on the uptake? If so I blame the pills. Negative cognitive effects are a potential side effect, along with just about everything else. |
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